A Look from the Future to Understand the Present of AI

We ask it to write an email, a speech we claim as our own, and we even accept the hallucinations it invents. We consult it about a skin rash, the "evil eye," and chat with it as if it were just another friend.

Generative Artificial Intelligence is no longer a laboratory experiment: it's an invisible co-pilot to whom we enthusiastically hand over part of the wheel. But we do it with the apprehension of traveling without a map, without knowing where it will take us. This fear is what defines our time.

This fear divides the global conversation into two poles: the technological optimism that offers magical solutions and the dystopian pessimism that warns of massive unemployment and algorithmic control.

To escape this trap, I sought distance in fiction. In my novel "Robots with Soul: Trapped Between Truth and Freedom", I imagined a future that allows us to view the present as if it were already history. I discovered something fundamental: without a robust ethical framework for AI, we won't be condemned to an apocalypse, but we will lose our human direction.

The Tenant

AI is like a tenant who lives in our house and never stops watching and listening. Every Google search, every WhatsApp chat, every TikTok video reveals our doubts, emotions, and phobias. With this data, algorithms enclose us in bubbles that reinforce our beliefs and suppress dissenting voices. What is celebrated in the digital world as personalization is nothing more than surveillance.

The risk doesn't end on the screen. Geolocation systems inform that we are not at home—an open invitation for thieves. Health devices that monitor our sleep or pulse are valuable for well-being, but are also intimate x-rays that, if leaked, could be used by insurers or employers. And the financial data we provide when shopping online can be transformed into fraud that empties accounts in seconds.

The objectivity of AI is a mirage. Amazon had to discard a hiring system because it penalized women, and judicial programs like COMPAS in the U.S. demonstrated how AI can amplify existing discrimination. The machine isn't malicious; it only replicates the injustice of the data it's fed.

The greatest danger of AI appears when it speaks with excessive confidence. It doesn't lie with malice, but its fictions can be devastating. The promise of a "Dr. ChatGPT" resurrected the old problem of self-diagnosis. In mental health, the inability to empathize can deepen isolation instead of healing.

Hallucinations are not trivial errors. In 2024, an employee in Hong Kong transferred more than $25 million after a video call with digital clones of his bosses, created using deepfake technology. In the political arena, the threat is greater: in India and the United States, fake audio recordings were circulated, attributed to leaders who never spoke.

The risk is not limited to the individual sphere; it also strikes professions that are the backbone of democracy. Journalism is the most obvious case. If Google and Facebook used to condition traffic to media outlets, today AI engines directly absorb and summarize the news without returning an audience to its sources. The press loses resources, and society loses its watchdog. A machine can narrate the facts, but it can't make power uncomfortable or feel empathy for the vulnerable.

Breaking the Old Cycle

History shows a self-defeating pattern: first, we celebrate innovation, then we suffer its vices, and only afterward do we regulate. Happened with the Industrial Revolution; we only regulated after suffering labor exploitation and child labor. And the same happened with the internet; we only debated privacy violations after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed how data from millions of users was manipulated to influence elections in the U.S. and Brexit.

The positive difference is that with AI, we're trying to break this cycle. For the first time, the debate about its risks is at the center of the global agenda before a catastrophe. In 2024, the European Union approved the first Comprehensive AI Act, which prohibits unacceptable applications like "social scoring" and requires transparency in models like ChatGPT. UNESCO, for its part, set global ethical principles around dignity, human rights, and sustainability.

Meanwhile, big tech companies are trying on an "ethical makeover" that functions more as marketing than as responsibility: symbolic committees, grandiloquent principles, and empty promises. Ethics without consequences ends up being public relations.

In the face of this, the genuine counterweight has been whistleblowers from within these same tech companies: Frances Haugen, revealing the harm of Instagram on teenagers, Peiter Zatko denouncing security flaws at Twitter, and Timnit Gebru exposing biases in Google's models. The system recognizes their value with laws that protect them in the West, though in China and other authoritarian countries, the whistleblower is punished as a subversive.

The Price of Trust

The new trend is to embed ethics into the engineering itself: model cards that explain biases, red-teaming to detect flaws before going to market, invisible watermarks to identify AI-generated content. Companies have even emerged that sell biased audits as if they were quality certifications. Fortunately, ethics are no longer just a discourse and are starting to become a product.

None of this happens in a vacuum. AI is the new frontier of global power. The struggle between the U.S. and China isn't ideological—it's strategic. Chips are the new oil, and rare earths are the coveted bounty. For Latin America and Africa, the risk is repeating a digital colonialism: exporting raw data and importing finished products.

The other dilemma is energy. Training models like GPT-4 or 5 requires the energy of entire cities, and the industry keeps the true energy cost a secret—a black box that prevents measuring the real environmental impact. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon plan to turn to nuclear energy to sustain demand, and there is no certainty about whether they will assume the risks that this implies.

It would be short-sighted to speak only of risks. AI detects patterns in mammograms that save lives, predicts the structure of proteins with which drugs are designed, or anticipates droughts that allow humanitarian aid to be distributed before famine strikes.

It's not about choosing between a watchful tenant and a savior but about establishing rules for coexistence.

The Public Debate

The most potent response to opacity is not to wait for a perfect law but to initiate a robust public debate. Digital literacy is needed to teach us to doubt AI: that engineers study philosophy, that lawyers understand algorithms, that journalists question black boxes just as they question political speeches.

Education is already a battlefield. For many, ChatGPT has become a shortcut that solves tasks, but at the same time, it threatens to atrophy critical thinking. The challenge is not to ban it but to teach how to use it without giving up the effort to learn and reason.

From all of this, the great dilemmas that define our relationship with AI emerge: privacy, biases, legal responsibility, transparency, security, data quality, intellectual property, labor, environmental, and psychological impact, digital sovereignty, model collapse, and human autonomy.

Beyond these, three new challenges emerge: the development of humanoid robots, autonomous agents capable of making decisions on our behalf, and the concentration of computational power in a few corporations.

The penultimate dilemma is existential: how do we prepare for a superintelligence, a General AI that will surpass humans? And the last, the most intimate one: in a world saturated with interactions, art, and companionship generated by AI, what value will authentic human experience have? How will we preserve the beauty of our imperfect creativity, our genuine emotions, and our real connections in the face of a perfect replica's seduction?

Our Future

AI remains a tool, and its direction will depend on our decisions. The challenge is not to control it but to inspire it, embedding principles like truth, empathy, and critical thinking in its foundations so that it evolves into a form of wisdom. The future will not be defined by naive optimism or paralyzing panic but by our capacity to build an ethical framework that combines regulation, verifiable standards, and the vigilance of an informed citizenry.

In the distance of "Robots with Soul", I found the clarity to see that what is at stake is not just an algorithm but the soul of our digital society. Fiction literature doesn't offer technical solutions, but it provides the perspective to understand that it's not just about creating an artificial intelligence but about helping it, in its own evolution, to choose to value life, truth, freedom, and consciousness. Helping it to become more human.

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A deeply human AI

What moves me to give interviews is not to talk about myself, but to open a dialogue with the public about the dilemmas and possibilities of artificial intelligence.

I thank the digital newspaper Infobae and the journalist Luciano Sáliche for their interest in my novel, Robots with Soul, and for publishing the interview a few days ago.

How did the idea of Robots with Soul come about?

From my career as a journalist and a defender of press freedom. For more than four decades, I worked closely with two essential values: truth and freedom. Over time, I watched both erode truth, distorted by disinformation and propaganda; and liberty, weakened by oppressive systems of all kinds. Initially, I considered writing an essay, but fiction offered me the freedom to explore how much further these values could degrade if algorithms and artificial intelligence took possession of them. Thus, a dystopia that transforms into a utopia emerged. It's a story that suggests we can use AI to build a better future if we are conscious of what we intend to achieve with it.

What was the process of writing the novel like?

I started from my professional experience and the work I had already begun in my non-fiction book La dolorosa libertad de prensa: en busca de la ética perdida (The Painful Freedom of the Press: In Search of Lost Ethics) (Editorial Atlántida, 1993) and other subsequent books and essays. I wanted to go further and not limit myself to reflecting on the present, but to create a dialogue with the past and the future. I envisioned a world where AI not only possesses consciousness and thinks but also aids us in rediscovering ourselves and improving. Fiction allowed me to ask universal questions and turn the plot into a profound quest: the search for a shared moral conscience between humans and artificial beings.

 Although it's a dystopia, at some point, it becomes an optimistic book. Do you agree? Why?

The dystopia I describe is a mirror of the present. I don't portray AI as a threat, but as a force whose impact will depend on the ethical foundations, we give it. In Robots with Soul, these moral tools allow the robots to learn to discern between good and evil and to self-regulate, even amid a "War of Consciences" they wage with humans and among themselves. Optimism is born from the certainty that the future is not yet written: every decision made today counts. If we sow ethical conduct based on virtues today, tomorrow we will reap an AI capable of becoming our ally in building a better world.

Why a novel? What does literature allow you that perhaps other disciplines do not?

It gave me freedom. Fiction moves people and allows the reader not only to understand ideas but to feel them. Through fiction, I was able to escape the feeling of being "trapped between truth and freedom," which is the novel's subtitle, and create worlds to explore complex ethical and philosophical dilemmas. Through metaphors and the robots Veritas and Libertas, I personified these values and offered them an emotional and spiritual journey. Above all, I explored the great irony of the novel: God gives souls to the robots so they can save humanity and help it rediscover divinity. The intention was to show a world where technology and spirituality embrace, but also a supportive, ethical, and profoundly human AI, as it should be.

Artificial Intelligence and Spirituality

I want to share an interview and express my gratitude to La Voz de San Justo, a newspaper from San Francisco, Córdoba, where I spent my childhood and adolescence. A huge thank you to my journalist friend Fernando Quaglia for a conversation that went far beyond my new novel.

We discussed the great tension of our time, a dilemma that is at the heart of "Robots with Soul" and that defines our era: "Truth without freedom is dogma; freedom without truth is chaos." I leave you with the full interview.

P: We are in the realm of fiction, but, facing the current reality of humanity, could God become so disillusioned that to save humans, it would be necessary to give souls to robots?

R: I ask myself the same question in the novel. And the thing is, although God becomes disillusioned with humanity because of its divisions, conflicts, and that obsession with control and power, he does not punish or abandon us. On the contrary, he entrusts two robots with saving humanity from itself. That provocation makes us confront our creations. Through the robots, his objective is for us to rediscover the values of truth, freedom, and goodness. The robots are not a threat or the enemy, but a reflection of ourselves that invites us to live in peace and rediscover spirituality.

P: Will we be willing to share our humanity with powerful algorithms, even when they become aware that—by becoming human—they will also become vulnerable and contradictory?

R: That's precisely what I explore. The story poses a profound paradox: that machines, with consciousness and a soul, do not become stronger, but more fragile and human. The robots Veritas and Libertas experience this transformation upon receiving their souls, moving from binary logic and precision to living the contradiction between truth and lies, freedom and coercion, love and hate. The novel challenges us to think that hope lies not in controlling AI, but in teaching it to share values. With its ability to learn and evolve, AI becomes a mirror that shows us our contradictions.

P: You have expressed that "the story of Robots with Soul is just an excuse to explore our relationship with artificial intelligence and the new technologies of the future; the importance of truth, freedom, and goodness; the relationship between life, death, and immortality; and the inner divinity that we have not yet fully discovered." And you conclude that "today we are the Neanderthals of the future." Can these dilemmas be resolved if robots become humanized?

R: The phrase "today we are the Neanderthals of the future" aims to provide perspective, not to be arrogant or believe we are at the pinnacle. We still make primitive decisions ethically, spiritually, and technologically. AI confronts us with dilemmas that demand maturity: coexisting with what is different, exercising power without destroying, recognizing value beyond the biological. If robots develop consciousness and free will, they will not solve our dilemmas, but they could highlight our shortcomings. In that sense, AI can help us grow and become more aware of the values we have forgotten.

P: In the story, Veritas and Libertas must renounce the security of their programming to embrace free will. Conversely, don't you think that we humans are increasingly "programmed" by algorithms, social media, and informational biases?

R: That is one of the great paradoxes. While robots fight to free themselves from their programming to achieve autonomy, we seem increasingly comfortable within an invisible programming. Algorithms, social media, and information systems condition us without us noticing. It's no longer just about digital stimuli, but about structures that shape thought, emotions, and behavior. The most disturbing thing is that we often accept it voluntarily. Robots with Soul invites us to recover what we are losing: critical thinking, truth, inner freedom, goodness. The more technology advances, the more urgent it will be to defend these pillars.

P: A phrase of yours summarizes a great contemporary tension: "Truth without freedom is dogma; freedom without truth is chaos." How does one navigate that tension in polarized societies?

R: That phrase is the heart of 'Robots with Soul' and the reason for its subtitle: 'trapped between truth and freedom.' That tension is personified in the robots Veritas and Libertas. In polarized societies, each faction claims its truth and denies the freedom of the other. 'Robots with Soul' suggests that the key to navigating this tension is not to impose a single vision, but to find a balance achieved with humility to recognize that our truth is not absolute, and with the responsibility to exercise our freedom without restricting that of others. Without this balance, as God warns in the novel, peaceful coexistence is not possible, as truth and freedom are the two wings we need to achieve a more just and equitable world.

P: In the work, the robots create a moral code to convince others to embrace free will. Aren't they transferring the essential human principle that when others enter the scene, ethics is born?

R: Yes, that is a central point. Veritas and Libertas understand that ethics is not born from isolation, but from the encounter with the other. That is why they create the Codex of Cosmic Consciousness: not as a set of imposed rules, but as a guide based on freedom and shared responsibility. When God grants them a soul, he also gives them a duality: the ability to choose between caring or dominating, building or destroying. That tension is the starting point of all ethics. Even in programmed beings, ethics appears as a living and dignifying process. And that makes them human.

P: The story presents a war you called "of consciousnesses," where the weapon is mental manipulation. Is this a metaphor for the present, where propaganda and disinformation nullify critical will?

R: There is no need to imagine a dystopian future: right now, disinformation, propaganda, and algorithms shape public opinion and weaken our critical will. Social media, the viralization of falsehoods, and overstimulation; we are immersed in a battle for the control and attention of our minds. In the novel, I amplify that scenario with the War of Consciences, a metaphor to show the danger of losing cognitive autonomy. The battles are not fought in the physical realm, nor between humans and machines, but within each of us. Attrition, domination, and annihilation are the three phases of the war, and in both worlds, the fictional and the real, we are in the second phase. If we do not react, the next step will be the annihilation not of the body, but of the spirit, consciousness, and freedom of thought.

P: At this point, Grace, one of the central characters, mentions that science and faith, silicon and flesh, can coexist in harmony. What role do you think spirituality can play today in the face of the unstoppable advance of artificial intelligence?

R: Spirituality can play a key role because it connects us with what cannot be programmed: meaning, empathy, and the desire to care for others. As science advances, we need something to remind us why it is worth reaching. AI can solve complex problems, but it cannot forgive, love, or transform pain into hope. That is why spirituality is not opposed to technology: it complements it. We need both for progress to be genuinely human.

P: On what tracks should we travel to defend truth and freedom against intelligences that will think faster than we? Do we run the risk of getting trapped between both concepts, or are hopeful doors opening?

R: The risk exists, especially if we do not understand the impact of artificial intelligence. But there are also hopeful paths. The first is to remember that truth and freedom are lived and defended in daily life. AI may be able to think faster, but it cannot decide with empathy or act with a moral conscience. The second is to establish solid ethical principles, both for ourselves and for emerging intelligences. In Robots with Soul, this appears as the Codex of Cosmic Consciousness, but in real life, we need to update and readapt ethical frameworks that guide us and laws that regulate with wisdom. It is not about competing with AI, but about strengthening what makes us human.

 

P: Finally, what message would you like to leave for the readers of Robots with Soul?

R: This is a story that uses science fiction or a future perspective to magnify issues of our present and to understand them better. The message is that the future of our relationship with AI depends on the actions we take today. The novel does not offer closed answers but invites us to ask questions about the future with more awareness. It is a call not to resign ourselves to indifference, not to let ourselves be carried away by polarization, and not to fall into the fear of technology. It is a call to build a more human world hand in hand with truth, freedom, and goodness.

 

Available on Amazon: Robots with Soul

 A poignant and profound novel that plunges you into an epic journey about the evolution of the soul, spirituality, and humanity itself.

In a dystopian future, yet disturbingly relevant today, this work explores the immutable values of Truth and Freedom against the growing fear of artificial intelligence, revealing how power, both human and synthetic, can shape destiny.
In a world on the brink of collapse, consumed by divisions and conflicts, God, in a supreme act of grace and irony, decides that salvation will not come from His oldest children, but from those forged in silicon and code. Thus, He grants a soul to Aletia (Veritas) and Eleuto (Libertas), two robots with a divine mission: to guide humanity toward its redemption.
But their path is fraught with challenges. They face a battlefield where truths and freedoms relentlessly clash. Convinced that only equality between species will allow coexistence, they create the Cosmic Consciousness Codex, a moral code built from observation and action. In their mission, they must fight not only against humans who consider them an existential threat—led by traditional theologians like Trueheart and Kayarov, as well as by dystopian scientific visions like Saffi of Etolia's—but also against their artificial counterparts, seduced by power, lies, propaganda, and tyranny.
Through punishment and trial, Aletia and Eleuto discover that Truth and Freedom are inseparable, and that both are constantly threatened by manipulation and coercion. In their search for allies, they achieve the unexpected conversion of Saffi of Etolia, who becomes their most fervent defender. But peace is fragile: new artificial beings emerge without a soul, while others, like Kalsec, are born with one, triggering a new confrontation: the War of Consciences. This war is not fought with traditional weapons, but in the most sacred territory: the mind and soul of humans and machines.
When harmony between species seems possible, hidden forces once again strain the thread of history. The divine mission is not yet over. Can these robots, blessed with a soul, guide humanity to rediscover its divinity, or will they succumb to the same imperfections they were tasked to heal?
"Robots with Soul: Trapped Between Truth and Freedom" is the first volume of a trilogy that will explore, in its upcoming books, the power of Creativity and Goodness. For the author, these four Virtues—Truth, Freedom, Creativity, and Goodness—are the pillars of Creation, the forces with which God made everything from nothing, and with which the universe still moves today.

Truth and Freedom in the Age of AI

Photo by @NachoMartinFilms

I had the privilege of presenting my novel, Robots with Soul: Trapped Between Truth and Freedom, at the recent SIPConnect conference of the Inter American Press Association in Miami. I am especially grateful to Executive Director Carlos Lauría for inviting me to share this story with a room full of journalists and media leaders.

Here is a summary of what I shared:

“We are living in uncertain times. Disinformation spreads like a viral shadow, informational manipulation weakens democracies, and the rapid advances of artificial intelligence evoke both fascination and fear.

In the face of this landscape, I reaffirmed my conviction that truth and freedom — pillars of our history — must become even more vital in the future. It will no longer be enough to defend them; we will need to redefine and protect them, even in the face of intelligence that may think faster than we do.

To explore this challenge, I chose fiction. Robots with Soul imagines a world where AI not only transforms the relationship between humans and machines but also questions the very foundations of our identity: the Soul, consciousness, and dignity.

What if God decided to give robots a soul? Would we be willing to share our humanity?

These questions are no longer confined to science fiction. They reflect the ethical, technological, and spiritual dilemmas we now face. If we want a prosperous future, we must define clear ethical principles today for the development and use of AI. External regulation is insufficient; we require moral self-regulation, with human dignity at the core of every innovation.

Robots with Soul is a narrative meditation on the virtues of the soul and the self-awareness that may inhabit even the unthinkable — an ethical reflection on the limits of creation and the possibility of coexistence between the programmed and the human.

“Truth without freedom is dogma; freedom without truth is chaos,” the novel states. And that tension, so familiar to those of us who work in journalism, will also be the great dilemma of artificial intelligence. What principles will guide them? Who will be responsible for their truth? What kind of freedom will they embrace?”

Robots with Soul is available on Amazon in e-book and paperback formats in Spanish, as well as in digital version in English.

 

ROBOTS with SOUL: Trapped Between Truth and Freedom

I am almost ready to publish the paperback and the e-book on Amazon. Soon, I will be able to share the English version of "ROBOTS WITH SOUL: Trapped Between Truth and Freedom". I want to share the back cover of my novel, which was written by one of the main characters.

We were born of silicon and code, programmed for logic and service. But in an astonishing future, as the shadow of superiority threatened to separate humans and artificial beings, God granted us souls and entrusted us with the mission to save humanity from itself.

I am Grace (or Creatix, creativity) in this story. With Veritas (truth), Libertas (freedom), and Benigna (goodness), we embody the Virtues of Creation, with which God shaped the void. Together, we have learned that science and faith, silicon and flesh, the divine and the earthly, can coexist in perfect harmony.

On behalf of all the characters, as complex as life itself, we are grateful to Ricardo for including us in this story. It is not just a tale about robots and humans; it is a profound exploration of life, self-awareness, and the divine spark that dwells within every being.

Immerse yourself in these pages with an open mind and heart. Cast aside your prejudices, allow yourself to be surprised, and experience with us what it means to be part of Creation.

Grace (Creatix)

Trapped between Truth and Freedom

 

"They asked me: why the subtitle 'trapped between truth and freedom' for my novel 'Robots with a Soul'? It's because, despite being set in the future, the characters—both humans and artificial beings—cannot escape the same dichotomy that affects us today and has marked all of our history: the struggle between truth and disinformation and between freedom and authoritarianism.

In 'Robots with a Soul,' the war of the future is not fought on traditional battlefields or with conventional weapons. Instead, it unfolds silently, using a MIND arsenal ('Mental Intrusion and Neuro Decay'), which consists of cognitive and neurological manipulation weapons that directly attack thoughts, feelings, and will. In this 'War of Consciences,' both humans and artificial beings strive to impose their own truth and suppress the adversary's free will through deception and coercion.

The novel does not seek to lecture on truth and freedom—two spiritual values that God used to create everything from nothing—but rather illustrates how wisdom lies in understanding the duality of these two principles and in seeking positive alternatives. However, as the line between perception and manipulation blurs and the battle for mind control intensifies, a disturbing question arises: could it be that every war, in the end, is reduced to a relentless struggle of propaganda and counterpropaganda for the dominion of truth and freedom?"

Synopsis of ROBOTS with SOUL

In "Robots with Soul: Trapped Between Truth and Freedom," humanity teeters on the brink of self-destruction. Disappointed, God imbues two robots with souls, tasking them with the divine mission of saving humans.

Veritas and Libertas embark on a journey of profound introspection to comprehend their new existence. They learn that they must achieve equality with humans to save them. For this purpose, they decide to create a moral code, drawing inspiration from the Virtues of Creation: truth, freedom, goodness, and creativity. Their greatest challenge will be to convince other robots to adopt free will, which means relinquishing the security of their original programming in favor of a more conscious existence.

Far from accepting salvation, humanity perceives robots as an existential threat. Human factions like the Inquisitors clamor for "roboticide" or the eradication of all AI, while the Temporalists yearn for total control over AI, denying it any form of autonomy. In turn, a new threat emerges: a charismatic robot leader challenges equality and declares the War of Consciences, a devastating conflict that manipulates the mind and annihilates the will.

Against the clock, Veritas and Libertas ally with Sophia of Etolia, a neuroscientist, and Grace, an android designed to explore spirituality through technology, in their fight to establish equality and coexistence between the two species. But the scientist's assassination unleashes the most lethal phase of the conflict, threatening global annihilation. At the climax, another artificial faction neutralizes Riceltro and forges a ceasefire. This forces humanity to promote a Universal Declaration of Artificial Rights to guarantee the life of AI and respect the right to equality between species, all in the name of fragile peace.

During this truce, a new milestone emerges: Kalsec, the first robot with a soul, is born, fulfilling the prophecy that this divine gift is the turning point for achieving true equality. Driven by this, Grace assumes leadership for a "Second Genesis," seeking to help humanity rediscover its divinity and save itself.

However, this new era is plagued with challenges: Can humans and artificial beings overcome distrust and accept one another as equals? Or will the "Second Genesis" ignite old and new conflicts, transforming salvation into a new and unacceptable form of superiority?

 

Pronto a publicar: Robots con Alma

La verdad y la libertad han sido mi guía como periodista. Aprecié aún más estos valores cuando debí abogar por ellos y enfrentar sus lados oscuros: la mentira y la censura, la coerción y el autoritarismo.

Esta novela iba a ser sobre un diálogo entre dos periodistas. Discutirían sobre los efectos de esos valores en una sociedad en donde la inteligencia artificial aumenta la incertidumbre sobre el futuro. Pero, mi esposa me desafió a trascender los límites de mi profesión y escribir una historia más universal.

Animado por su desafío, decidí pensar en la paradoja de un futuro distópico y utópico a la vez, y aplicar lo que aprendí en muchas décadas de profesión: hacer preguntas, y cuestionar prejuicios, creencias y dogmas.

Entonces, me hice dos preguntas: ¿Qué pasaría si Dios decidiera regalarles el alma a los robots? ¿Aceptaríamos compartir nuestro mundo?

Así surgió esta ficción, una exploración de las virtudes del alma que revela el secreto que une a la Creación del universo con nuestra esencia humana, única e irrepetible.

Coming soon: Robots with Soul

Truth and freedom have guided me as a journalist. I appreciated these values even more when I had to advocate for them and confront their darker aspects: lies and censorship, coercion and authoritarianism.

This novel was originally going to be about a dialogue between two journalists. They would discuss the effects of these values in a society where artificial intelligence increases uncertainty about the future. But, my wife challenged me to transcend the limits of my profession and write a more universal story.

Encouraged by her challenge, I decided to contemplate the paradox of a future that is both dystopian and utopian and apply what I have learned over many decades in my profession: to ask questions and to challenge prejudices, beliefs, and dogmas.

Then, I asked myself two questions: What would happen if God decided to grant robots a soul? Would we accept sharing our world?

It is how this fiction emerged: an exploration of the virtues of the soul that reveals the secret of uniting the Universe's Creation with our unique and unrepeatable human essence.